Mikhail Sholokhov
Russia
24 May 1905 // 21 Feb 1984
Write [Nobel 1965]
24 May 1905 // 21 Feb 1984
Write [Nobel 1965]
Quotes
I am one of those authors who consider it their highest honour and their highest liberty to have a completely untrammelled chance of using their pens to serve the working people.
In my opinion, the true pioneers are those artists who make manifest in their works the new content, the determining characteristics of life in our time.
One might say that the novel is the genre that most predisposes one to a profound insight into the tremendous life around us, instead of putting forward one's own tiny ego as the centre of the universe.
Vast sections of the world's population are inspired by the same desires and live for common interests that bind them together far more than they separate them.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays